Selected publications in Statistics for the Environment, Marine Resources and Health

Environment - journal papers and book chapters

Aldrin, M., Haff, I. H. (2008). The effect of salting with magnesium chloride on the concentration of particulate matter in a road tunnel. Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 22, p. 1762-1776. [pdf]

Natvig, Bent; Tvete, Ingunn (2007). Bayesian Hierarchical Space-time Modeleling of Earthquake Data. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Vol. 9, pp. 89-114.

Kausrud, Kyrre Linné; Viljugrein, Hildegunn; Frigessi, Arnoldo; Begon, Mike; Davis, Herwig Leirs, Stephen; Dubyanskiy, Vladimir; Stenseth, Nils Christian (2007). Climatically-driven synchrony of gerbil populations allows large-scale plague outbreaks. Proc Biol Sci. Vol. 274, pp. 1963-1969.

Larssen, Thorjørn; Huseby, Ragnar B.; Cosby, Bernard J.; Høst, Gudmund., Høgåsen, G.; Aldrin, Magne (2006). Forecasting Acidification Effects using a Bayesian Calibration and Uncertainty Propagation Approach. Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 40, pp. 7841-7847. [pdf]

Frigessi, Arnoldo; Holden, Marit; Marshall, Clare; Viljugrein, Hildegunn; Stenseth, Nils. Chr.; Holden, Lars; Ageyev, Vladimir and Klassovskiy, Nikolay L. (2005). Bayesian population dynamics of interacting species: great gerbils and fleas in Kazakhstan. Biometrics, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 230-238.

Aldrin, M. and Hobæk Haff, I. (2005). Generalised additive modelling of air pollution, traffic volume and meteorology. Atmospheric Environment, Vol 39, pp. 2145-2155. [pdf]

Hirst, D.; Storvik, G. and Syversveen, A.R. (2003). A hierarchical modelling approach to combining environmental data at different resolutions. Applied Statistics, Vol. 52, pp. 377-390.

Hirst, D. and Storvik, G. (2003). Estimating Critical load exceedance by combining the EMEP model with data from measurement stations. The Science of Total Environment, Vol. 310, pp. 163-170.

Aldrin, Magne (2002). Reduced-rank regression. In El-Shaarawi, A.H. and Piegorsch, W.W. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, pp. 1724-1728, ISBN 04771-899976. [pdf]

Hirst, David (2002). Critical loads. In El-Shaarawi, A.H. and Piegorsch, W.W. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, Vol. 1, pp. 443-447, ISBN 04771-899976.

Høst, Gudmund (2002). Statistics and the environmental sciences: Approaches to model combination. In Anderson, C.W.; Barnett, V.; Chatwin, P.C. and El-Shaarawi, A.H. (eds.). Quantitative Methods for Current Environmental Issues, ISBN 1-85233-294-8.

Høst, Gudmund (2002). Simulated Annealing. In El-Shaarawi, A.H. and Piegorsch, W.W. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, Vol. 4, pp. 2001-2002, ISBN 04771-899976.

Storvik, Geir (2002). Gibbs Sampling. In El-Shaarawi, A.H. and Piegorsch, W.W. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, Vol. 2, pp. 899-905, ISBN 04771-899976.

Storvik, Geir (2002). Stochastic Simulation and Monte Carlo Methods. In El-Shaarawi, A.H. and Piegorsch, W.W. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, Vol. 4, pp. 2002-2007, ISBN 04771-899976.

Storvik, Geir (2002). S-plus. In El-Shaarawi, A.H. and Piegorsch, W.W. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, Vol. 4, pp. 1897-1899, ISBN 04771-899976.

Hisdal, Hilde; Tallaksen, Lene M. and Frigessi Arnoldo (2002). Handling non-extreme events in extreme value modelling of droughts. In van Lanen, H. and Demuth, S. (eds.). FRIEND 2002-Regional Hydrology: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice. No. 274.

Storvik, Geir; Frigessi, Arnoldo and Hirst, David (2002). Space-time Gaussian fields and their time-autoregressive representation. Statistical Modelling Vol. 2, pp. 139-161.

Høst, Gudmund (2002). Discussion of statistical issues in weather forecasting. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 29, pp. 239-241.

Hirst, David. J.; Kåresen, Kjetil; Høst, Gudmund and Posch, Max (2000). Estimating the exceedance of critical loads in Europe by considering local variability in deposition. Atmospheric Environment, 34, pp. 3789-3800.

Høst, Gudmund (1999). Bayesian Estimation of European Sulphur Emissions Using Monitoring Data and an Acid Deposition Model. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Vol. 6, No 4, pp. 381-399.

Høst, G. (1999). Kriging by Local Polynomials. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Vol. 29, Nr. 3.

Divino, F. and Frigessi, A. (1998). Bayesian identification of algae in the Venice lagoon: parametric models with covariates (in Italian). Problemi Statistici nel Telerilevamento, Rubettino editore.

Frigessi, A. and Høst, G. (1998). Spatial models with covariates in environmental applications. XXXIX Riunione Scientifica della Societa' Italiana di Statistica 14-17 April 1998.

Høst, G. (1998). Discussion of model-based geostatistics, by Diggle, Tawn & Moyeed. Applied Statistics, Vol. 47, Nr. 3.

Environment - open technical reports

Aldrin, Magne (2006). Effekt av vasking, feiing og salting i Strømsås-tunnelen. NR-note SAMBA/21/06. [pdf]

Aldrin, Magne and Haff, Ingrid Hobæk (2003). Empiriske modeller for luftforurensning, trafikkvolum og meteorologi - basert på data fra 2001-2003. NR-report 997, ISBN 82-539-0504-1. [pdf]

Steinbakk, Gunnhildur Hognadottir and Aldrin, Magne (2003). Effekt av salting på svevestøv. En analyse basert på data fra vintrene 2001/2002 og 2002/2003. NR-note SAMBA/19/2003. [pdf]

Marine resources - journal papers and book chapters

Hjermann, Dag Øystein; Melsom, Arne; Dingsør, Gjert Endre; Durant, Joël M.; Eikeset, Anne Maria; Røed, Lars Petter; Ottersen, Geir; Storvik, Geir; Stenseth, Nils Christian (2007). Fish and oil in the Lofoten-Barents Sea system: synoptic review of the effect of oil spills on fish populations. Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 339, pp. 283-299.

Løland, A., Aldrin, M., Ona, E., Hjellvik, V., Holst, J.C. (2007). Estimating and decomposing total uncertainty for survey-based abundance estimates of Norwegian spring-spawning herring. ICES Journal of Marine Science, Vol. 64, p. 1302-1312. [pdf]

Scheel, I., Aldrin, M., Frigessi, A. and Jansen, P.A (2007). A stochastic model for infectious salmon anemia (ISA) in Atlantic salmon farming. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Vol. 4, p. 699-706. [pdf]

Hirst, D., Storvik, G., Aldrin, M., Aanes, S. and Huseby, R.B. (2005). Estimating catch-at-age by combining data from different sources. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Vol. 62, p. 1377-1385. [pdf]

Hirst, D., Aanes, S., Storvik, G., Huseby R.B. and Tvete, I.F. (2004). Estimating catch at age from market sampling data by using a Bayesian hierarcical model. Applied Statistics, Vol. 53, pp. 1-14.

Aldrin, M., Holden, M. and Schweder, T. (2003). Comment on Cowling's "Spatial Methods for Line Transect Surveys". Biometrics, Vol. 59, pp. 186-188, 2003. [pdf] (This is an electronic version of an article published in Biometrics: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Biometrics, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/BIOM or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com)

Løland, Anders; Høst, Gudmund (2003). Spatial covariance modelling in a complex coastal domain by multidimensional scaling. Environmetrics, Volume 14, Issue 3, pp. 307-321.

Høst, Gudmund; Berg, Erlend; Schweder, Tore and Tjelmeland Sigurd (2003). A Gamma/Dirichlet Model for Estimating Uncertainty in Age-Specific Abundance of Norwegian Spring Spawning Herring. ICES Journal of Marine Science, Vol. 59, No. 4, pp. 737-748.

Frigessi, A. and Hjort, N.L. (2002). Statistical models and methods for discontinuous phenomena. Journal of Non Parametric Statistics, Vol. 4, p. 1-6.

Frigessi, A.; Haug, O. and Rue, H. (2002). A dynamic mixture model for unsupervised tail estimation without treshold selection. Extremes, Vol 5., p. 219-236.

Schweder, T. (2002). Large structured models in applied science; challenges for statistics. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Vol. 29, p. 189-191.

Schweder, Tore (2001). Protecting whales by distorting uncertainty: non-precautionary mismanagement? Fisheries Research Vol. 52.

Schweder, Tore (2001). Skepsisens plass i biologien - om falske funn og fordreid usikkerhet. Biolog Vol. 3.

Schweder, Tore; Skaug, Hans J.; Langaas, Mette and Dimakos, Xeni K. (1999). Simulated likelihood methods for complex double-platform line transect surveys. Biometrics Vol. 55, No. 3.

Hagen, Gro; Hatlebakk; Einar and Schweder, Tore (1998). Scenario Barents Sea: A tool for evaluating fisheries management regimes. In Rødseth, Tor (ed.) Models for multispecies management, ISBN 3-7908-1001-0.

Schweder, Tore; Hagen, Gro and Hatlebakk, Einar (1998). On the effect on cod and herring fisheries of retuning the Revised Management Procedure for minke whaling in the greater Barents Sea. Fisheries Research Vol. 37, Nr. 1-3.

Schweder, Tore; Skaug, Hans; Dimakos, Xeni; Langaas, Mette; Øyen, Nils (1997). Abundance of Northeastern Minke Whales. Estimates for 1989 and 1998. Report of the International Whaling Commission, 47, pp. 453-484.

Marine resources - open technical reports

Aldrin, Magne; Storvik, Bård and Schweder,Tore (2006). Standardized catch per unit effort in minke whaling in Norwegian Waters, 152-1983 and 1993-2004. Paper presented to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission 2006. NR-note SAMBA/03/06. [pdf]

Aldrin, Magne; Huseby, Ragnar Bang and Schweder,Tore (2006). Simulation trials for a re-tuned Catch limit Algorithm. Paper presented to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission 2006. NR-note SAMBA/10/06. [pdf]

Aldrin, Magne (2005). Rekrutteringsfunksjoner for sild, torsk og lodde. NR-note SAMBA/12/05. [pdf]

Hagen, Gro; Høst, Gudmund og Schweder, Tore (2002). Analyse av replikatdata fra Vestfjorden 2001. NR-note SAMBA/23/02. [pdf]

Løland, Anders; Høst, Gudmund (2002). Initial analysis of data from Norwegian Spring Spawning Herring Survey in the Norwegian Sea, 2000 & 2001. NR-note SAMBA/21/02. [pdf]

Løland, Anders; Høst, Gudmund (2002). Initial analysis of data from Norwegian Spring Spawning Herring Survey in Vestfjord in November 2001. NR-note SAMBA/20/02. [pdf]

Hagen, Gro S.; Høst, Gudmund (2002). Some characteristics of the Acoustic Data from the Vestfjord Survey 1996. NR-note SAMBA/04/02.

Aldrin, Magne and Tvete, Ingunn Fride (2002). Measurement error models for the Norwegian Minke Whale Surveys 1996-2001. Paper SC/54/RMP3 presented to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission. [pdf]

Aldrin, Magne;; Schweder, Tore and Holden, Marit (2002). Spatial distribution of whales based on the Norwegian Minke Whale Survey 1996-2001. Paper SC/54/RMP4 presented to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission. [pdf]

Aldrin, Magne; Holden, Marit and Schweder, Tore (2001). Estimation of a Neyman-Scott process from line transect data by a one-dimensional K-function. NR-note SAMBA/18/01.

Berg, Erlend; Schweder, Tore og Tvete, Ingunn Fride (2001). Statistisk modellering av kommersielle fangstdata; en illustrasjon basert på trålfangster av torsk i 1999. NR-note SAMBA/01/01.

Health - journal papers and book chapters

Nesvåg, Ragnar; Lawyer, Glenn; Varnäs, Katarina; Fjell, Anders M.; Walhovd, Kristine B.; Frigessi, Arnoldo; Jönsson, Erik G.; Agartz, Ingrid (2008). Regional thinning of the cerebral cortex in schizophrenia: Effects of diagnosis, age and antipsychotic medication. Schizophr Res. Vol. 98, pp. 16-28.

Aalen, Odd O.; Frigessi, Arnoldo (2007). What can statistics contribute to a causal understanding? Scand. J. Statistitics, Vol. 34, pp. 155-168.

Husberg, Cathrine; Nygård, Ståle; Finsen, Alexandra Vanessa; Damås, Jan Kristian Frigessi, Arnoldo; Øie, Erik; Gullestad, Lars; Aukrust, Pål; Yndestad, Arne; Christensen, Geir (2007). Cytokine expression profiling of the myocardium reveals a role for CX3CL1 (fractalkine) in heart failure. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Vol. 42, pp. 152-153.

Aursnes, Ivar, Osnes, Jan-Bjorn, Tvete, Ingunn Fride, Gaasemyr, Jorund and Natvig, Bent (2007). Is atenolol different from other adrenergic blockers? BMC Clinical Pharmacology, Vol 7, no. 4.

Storvik, Geir Olve; Egeland, T. (2007). The DNA database search controversy revisited: bridging the Bayesian-Frequentist gap. Biometrics, Vol. 63, 922-925.

Fjærli, Hans-Olav; Bukholm, Geir; Skjæret, Camilla; Holden, Marit; Nakstad, Britt (2007). Cord Blood Gene Expression in Infants Hospitalized with Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 196, pp. 394-404.

Aalen, O.O., Frigessi,A. (red.) (2006). Statistiske metoder i medisin og helsefag. Gyldendal Akademisk.

Bøvelstad, H.M., Nygård, S., Størvold, H.L, Aldrin, M., Borgan, Ø, Frigessi, A., Lingjærde, O.C. (2007). Predicting survival from microarray data - a comparative study. Bioinformatics, Vol. 23, p. 2080-2087. [pdf]

Berner, Jeanne-Marie; Müller Christophe; Holden, Marit; Wang, Junbai; Hovig, Eivind; Myklebost, Ola (2006). Sampling Effects on Gene Expression Data from a Human Tumour Xenograft. Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science, Vol. 33, pp. 17-30.

Fjærli, Hans-Olav; Bukholm, Geir; Krog, Anne; Skjæret, Camilla; Holden, Marit; Nakstad, Britt (2006). Whole blood gene expression in infants with respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis. BMC Infectious Diseases, Vol. 6, no. 175.

Aursnes, Ivar Andreas; Tvete, Ingunn; Gåsemyr, Jørund Inge; Natvig, Bent (2006). Even more suicide attempts in clinical trials with paroxetine randomised against placebo. BMC Psychiatry, Vol. 6, no. 55.

Perminow, G., Frigessi, A., Rydning, A., Nakstad, B. and Vatn. M. (2006). Incidence and clinical presentation of IBD in children. Comparison between prospective and retrospective data in a selected Norwegian population. Scand J Gastroenterol, Vol. 41, pp. 1433-1439.

Jönssona, Erik G.; Edman-Ahlbom, Bodil; Sillén, Anna; Gunnar, Agneta; Kulle, Bettina; Frigessi, Arnoldo; Vares, Maria; Ekholm, Birgit; Wode-Helgodt, Birgitta; Agartz, Ingrid; Sedvall, Göran C.; Hall, Håkan and Terenius, Lars (2006). Brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene (BDNF) variants and schizophrenia: an association study. Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 30, pp. 924-933.

Agartz, I.; Sedvall GC.; Tereniua, L.; Kulle, B.; Frigessi A.; Hall, H. and Jønsson, EG. (2006). BDNF gene variants and brain morphology in schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Vol. 5, pp. 513-523.

Berner, Jeanne-Marie; Müller Christophe; Holden, Marit; Wang, Junbai; Hovig, Eivind; Myklebost, Ola (2006). Sampling Effects on Gene Expression Data from a Human Tumour Xenograft. Scandinavian Journal of Laboratory Animal Science, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 17-30.

Frigessi, Arnoldo; Wiel, Mark A. van de; Holden, Marit; Svendsrud, Debbie H.; Glad, Ingrid K. and Lyng, Heidi (2005). Genome-wide estimation of transcript concentrations from spotted cDNA microarray data. Nucleic Acids Research - Methods Online, Vol. 33, No. 17, e143.

Scheel, I.; Aldrin, M.; Glad, I.K.; Sørum, R.; Lyng, H. and Frigessi, A. (2005). The influence of missing value imputation on detection of differentially expressed genes from microarray data. Bioinformatics, Vol. 21, p. 4272-4279. [pdf]

Nygaard, Vigdis; Holden, Marit; Løland, Anders; Langaas, Mette; Myklebost, Ola; Hovig, Eivind (2005). Limitations of mRNA amplification from small-size cell samples. BMC Genomics, Vol. 6, e147.

Bosnes, V.; Aldrin, M. and Heier, H. E. (2005). Predicting blood donor arrival. Transfusion, Vol. 45, p. 162-170. [pdf]

Cekaite, L.; Haug, O.; Myklebost, O.; Aldrin, M.; Østenstad, B.; Holden, M.; Frigessi; A., Hovig, E. and Sioud, M. (2004). Analysis of the humoral immune response to immunoselected phage-displayed peptides by a microarray-based method. Proteomics, Vol. 4, p. 2572-2582. [pdf]

Nygaard, Vigdis; Løland, Anders ; Holden, Marit; Langaas, Mette; Rue, Håvard; Liu, Fang; Myklebost, Ola; Fodstad, Øystein; Hovig, Eivind and Smith-Sørensen, Birgitte (2003). Effects of mRNA amplification on gene expression ratios in cDNA experiments estimated by analysis of variance. BMC Genomics 2003 Vol. 4 :11.

Aursnes, I.A.; Tvete, I.; Gåsemyr, J. and Natvig, B. (2003). Clinical efficacies of antihypertensive drugs. Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal, Vol. 37, p. 72-79.

Tor-Kristian Jenssen; Mette Langaas; Winston P. Kuo; Birgitte Smith-Sørensen; Ola Myklebost and Eivind Hovig (2002). Analysis of repeatability in spotted cDNA microarrays. Nucleic Acids Res., Vol. 30, pp. 3235-3244.

Aursnes, I.A.; Natvig, B. and Tvete, I.F. (2002). Bayesian Thinking on its way into Medical Statistics? Tidsskrift for Den Norske Lægeforening, Vol.122, no.14., p. 1369-1372.

Aursnes, I.A.; Storvik, G.O.; Gåsemyr, J.; Natvig, B. (2000). A Bayesian Analysis of Bisphosphonate Effects and Cost-Effectiveness in Post-menopausal Osteoporosis. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety Nr. 9, 2000.

Perminow, A. G.; Rydning, A.; Jacobsen, C.D. and Frigessi, A (2000). Gastrointestinale endoskopier av barn. Tidsskr. Nor. Lægeforen. Vol. 29, Nr. 120.

Biggeri, Divino, Frigessi, Lawson, Bohning, Lesafre, Viel (1999). Introduction to Spatial models in ecological studies. Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public Health.

Health - open technical reports

Turid Follestad; Mette Langaas; Håvard Rue; Marit Holden and Anders Løland (2004). glme: a C-program for parameter estimation using Gibbs-sampling in large linear mixed-effects models, with applications to DNA microarray data. NR-note SAMBA/10/04. [pdf]

Marit Holden and Ola Haug (2003). Experimental design and statistical analysis of SNP data obtained in genetic association studies. NR-note SAMBA/28/03.

Marit Holden and Anders Løland (2003). Introduksjon til analyse av cDNA mikromatrisedata. Norsk Epidemiologi, Vol 13, pp. 291-296.

Aas, K. (2001). Microarray Data Mining: A Survey. NR-note SAMBA/02/01.

Clench-Aas, J.; Aldrin, M.; Bartonova, A.; Follestad, T.; Walker, S-E.; Skjønsberg, O.H.; Giæver, P. and Moseng, J. (2000). The short-term and long-term effects of air pollution on symptoms of reduced health in a panel of school-age children. NILU OR 65/99, Norwegian Institute for Air Resarch.

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